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Up to 1978 it was a 14 year term, and you can apply for a second 14 year term.
28 years after you created an IP, it was open season. The first SG-1 episode was 1997 btw, 28 years ago.
Now it's the authors entire life plus 70 more years.
We need to start fixing the shit the boomers broke instead of just accepting it because we weren't alive when it made sense.
Glances at the state of the Federal government
Dude, we're on the verge of telling pregnant women they can't take Tylenol because some quack thinks that's the source of autism. What on earth do you want anyone to do about SciFi IP?
These are said boomers last dying squirms.
It's not about generations, it's about idiots in places of decision. Every generation has idiots.
I wouldn't call Joe Rogan or Charlie Kirk a Boomer
Add it to the list of relatively easy fixes.
It's worse than that for copyrights owned by companies, like this is.
It's 95 years from publication or 120 years from creation
https://www.copyright.gov/what-is-copyright/